Ulysses S. Grant

On April 27, 1822 a boy was born to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah
Simpson Grant in the small town of Point Pleasant, Ohio. They named their
son Hiram Ulysses Grant. In 1823 the family moved to a town nearby called
Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses' father owned a tannery and some
farmland. Grant had two brothers and three sisters born in Georgetown.
Ulysses attended school in Georgetown until he was 14. He then spent
one year at the academy in Maysville, Kentucky, and in 1838, he entered an
academy in nearby Ripely, Ohio. Early in 1839, his father learned that a
neighbors son had been dismissed from the U.S. Military Academy. Jesse
asked his congressman to appoint Ulysses as a replacement. The
congressman made a mistake in Grant's name. He thought that Ulysses was
his first name and his middle name that of his mother's maiden name. But
Ulysses never corrected the mistake.
Grant was an average student at West Point. He spent most of his......

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